---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clifford's Law."
description: "Clifford's Law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 351"
citation: "North Carolina HB 351 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHAPTERED", "CONTINUING CARE FACILITIES", "DHHS", "DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES", "DISEASES & HEALTH DISORDERS", "FAMILY ISSUES", "FINES & PENALTIES", "HEALTH SERVICES", "HOSPITALS", "NAMED LAWS", "PATIENT RIGHTS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY", "RATIFIED", "RELIGION & RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dixon", "Lambeth", "White"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-22"
last_action: "2021-09-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/975fc71b-9ed5-45b1-a4f0-46457e9665e6"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/H351"
source_hash: "c149ebcaeb376d0898b3ec83972bd1d42d244e4feb62414ac17bc8134add2805"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
---

# North Carolina HB 351 (2021) — Clifford's Law.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H351v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ASH-15-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2021/2303/0/H351-ASH-15-V-1)
3. **A1: ATU-26-V-2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2021/52858/0/H351-ATU-26-V-2)
4. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H351v1.pdf)
5. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H351v2.pdf)
6. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H351v3.pdf)
7. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H351v4.pdf)
8. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H351v5.pdf)
9. **Edition 6** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H351v6.pdf)
10. **Edition 7** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H351v7.pdf)
11. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H351v8.pdf)
12. **SL 2021-145** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H351v9.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dixon — primary (person)
- Lambeth — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- A. Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Boles — cosponsor (person)
- Bradford — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- C. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Clampitt — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Greene — cosponsor (person)
- Hanig — cosponsor (person)
- Hastings — cosponsor (person)
- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- McNeill — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Mills — cosponsor (person)
- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
- Moss — cosponsor (person)
- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- Pless — cosponsor (person)
- Potts — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Sasser — cosponsor (person)
- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Strickland — cosponsor (person)
- Szoka — cosponsor (person)
- Tyson — cosponsor (person)
- Wheatley — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)
- Zachary — cosponsor (person)
- Zenger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-09-10** Ch. SL 2021-145 `became-law`
- **2021-09-10** Signed by Gov. 9/10/2021 `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-01** Pres. To Gov. 9/1/2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-09-01** Ratified
- **2021-08-31** Ordered Enrolled
- **2021-08-31** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2021-08-26** Placed On Cal For 08/31/2021
- **2021-08-26** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2021-08-25** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2021-08-25** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2021-08-24** Engrossed
- **2021-08-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-08-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-08-24** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-08-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-10** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-10** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2021-08-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-22** Re-ref Com On Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-22** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2021-07-22** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-10** Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-10** Withdrawn From Com
- **2021-04-05** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-04-05** Regular Message Received From House
- **2021-04-05** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2021-04-01** Ordered Engrossed
- **2021-04-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-01** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-31** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-03-31** Added to Calendar
- **2021-03-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2021-03-31** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** Serial Referral To State Government Stricken
- **2021-03-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-23** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, State Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-03-22** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/975fc71b-9ed5-45b1-a4f0-46457e9665e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).